On Dec. 11, 1972, man walked on the moon for the last time. Apollo 17 lifted off on Dec. 7, 1972, with astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and ...

The three-man crew aboard NASA's Apollo 17 mission departs the moon on Dec. 19, 1972, and returns to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, while leaving behind the third U.S. lunar rover. During ...

Ken 'TK' Mattingly, an American astronaut who visited the moon in 1972, passed away at the age of 87 on Tuesday, NASA confirms today. Mattingly was most famous for his key role in securing the safe ...

Apollo 16, the 10th manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, launched on April 16, 1972, after being delayed from its original March 17 launch date. This was the first launch delay in ...

Apollo 17 safely landed on the Moon on December 11, 1972, after launching from Earth four days prior. The 11th and final mission of the United States’ Apollo program, and the sixth NASA mission to put ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) ...

“The craters at about 10 to 15 meters in diameter seem to have somewhat more blocky material in their rims but they're not clear-cut blocky rim craters,” Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17’s Lunar Module ...

Astronauts from NASA said goodbye to the moon for the last time on Dec. 14, 1972. The somberness of the anniversary is offset by the scenes of Artemis I’s recently concluded mission. Apollo 17, left, ...

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and carefully stored away in the hope that future researchers using advanced ...